Tuesday, 20 February 2024
12.30 pm: Arrival, welcome
1.00–3.00 pm: Race, Racism and Sexuality
Chair: Norman Aselmeyer (Universität Bremen, Germany)
Lucy Debus (Gedenkstätte Lager Sandbostel, Germany):
Forbidden Relationships between Germans and Prisoners of War or Forced Labourers during the Second World War
Alexander Maxwell (Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand):
Lustful Doctors in the Orient. Foreign Women and Sexual Respectability in the 1820s and 1830s
Loong Dien Min (University of Cambridge, UK):
Beyond the Law of ‘Unnatural Offences’. Uncovering Experiences of (Il)legitimate Intimacies in British Malaya’s Plural Legal and Normative Landscape (1860–1938)
3.00–3.30 pm: Coffee Break
3.30–6.30 pm: Religion and Reproduction
Chair: Birgit Aschmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Jessica Albrecht (Universität Bonn, Germany):
Religion, Sexual Education and Eugenics
Pauline Mortas (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France):
Writing the History of Sexualities Through Objects? What Contraceptive Devices Can Teach Us About Sexual Practices and Sensibilities (France, 1880s–1930s)
Katerina Piro (Universität Mannheim, Germany):
Reproduction and Sexuality and the Ambivalent Protestant Clerics in Germany around 1900
Alina Potempa (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany):
Playing „Vatican Roulette“ – Catholicism and Contraception after 1930
Veronika Settele (Universität Bremen, Germany):
Secularizing Pleasure and Reproduction among Church Personnel and Lay People in Germany and France, around 1900
7.30 pm: Dinner at bellini, Universitätsallee 14, 28359 Bremen
Wednesday, 21 February 2024
9.00–11.00 am: Sexual Violence and Law
Chair: Julia Reus (Universität Bayreuth, Germany)
Lisa Hellriegel (Universität Bremen, Germany):
Between Consent and Violence. What Court Files Tell Us About Sexual Practices in German Cities, c. 1900–1935
Chifundo Kamba (Stellenbosch University, South Africa):
Towards the Making of the Legal Culture. European Conceptualisations of Sexual Violence among the Local Population of Malawi, c. 1891–1920
Sabina Mompó (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain):
Rape in Franco's Spain through Medical Reports and Legal Proceedings. Sexed Violence, Infanticide and Moral-Catholic Judgment
11.00–11.30 am: Coffee Break
11.30 am–1.30 pm: Deviance and Control
Chair: Andrea Rottmann (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Paul Durand (EHESS Paris, France):
Exploring the Boundaries of Intimacy and Sexuality. Gender as a Tool for Homosexual Encounters and Police Arrests in Public Toilets between the Two World Wars in Angers
Jens Elberfeld (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany):
„Liederlich, raffiniert und mannstoll“ (“Dissolute, Refined and Man-Mad“). Welfare Education and Adolescent Sexuality in Early 20th Century Germany
Daniel Gerster (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg, Germany):
“We Found Individual Relief in Masturbation.” Towards a History of Onanism from below
1.30 pm: Lunch (optional)